Jerry Podany of the Getty Museum removes a consolidant that
had been applied to one of the footprints when it was first
excavated in the late 1970s. Photo: Angelyn Bass.

Heinz Rüther and Ulrike Brussler of the University of Cape
Town survey the site using a total station. The survey data
was used, along with photogrammetry, to create a three-dimensional
model of portions of the trackway. Photo: Frank Long.

A cross section of the Laetoli trackway reburial stratigraphy,
including layers of geotextiles, with lava boulders at the
top. Photo: Neville Agnew.

Members of local Masai tribe and the project team gather
prior to a ceremony of August 1996 that included a tribal
blessing of the Laetoli trackway. Photo: John C. Lewis.

View of some of the new exhibition panels in the Laetoli
Room of the Olduvai Museum. Photo: Daniel Koch.

An exhibition cast of the Laetoli trackway with a mural re-creating
the making of the footprints. The cast is the centerpiece
of the Laetoli Room. Photo: Daniel Koch.

A large panel at the entrance to the Olduvai Room. The panel
tells the story of Louis and Mary Leakey's work in Tanzania
over a 60-year period. Photo: Daniel Koch.